Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watered stocks and from all other kinds of 'confidence games.' That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of Government to obtain and to maintain fair reward for labor, whether it be the labor of the farmer or the factory worker or the labor of the white collar man. That is Justice. The nation applauds efforts, through, the agencies of Government, to give a greater social security to the aged and to the unemployed, to improve health, and to create better opportunities for our young people. That, too, is Justice...
...jackets of blue gabardine with crimson trim, two small H's on the collar lapel, a blue cap with a small crimson H, blue knickers, red stockings, and a red tie, all go to make the uniform of the Ski Team members...
...black-haired, 21-year-old schoolmarm named Edith Maxwell testified last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that such was the innocent beginning of the fatal night of July 20, 1935. The trial judge, a jurist of 76 with stand-up collar around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed...
...down bobbed Ilchester's small Adam's apple last week within the high, oldfashioned collar he affects. "Most lamentable!" cried he. "The land is now producing fine crops." Chiming in with His Lordship, the Dorset County Council appealed to His Majesty's Government to assemble their new air Might somewhere else. "Dorset is becoming an armed camp!" sputtered Dorset County Councilor A. H. Edwards. "We will soon be taking visitors to see not the swans of Abbotsbury but the new bombing station, then to Holton Heath to see where cordite is being made and on to Bovington...
...economics. His works were characterized by their impressive accumulation of little-known facts, by their revolutionary conclusions and by their repetitious and mechanical prose. Last week his third book revealed that Lewis Corey could combine his scholarly knowledge with an emotional appeal. Addressed to small businessmen, minor executives, white collar workers, architects, engineers, The Crisis of the Middle Class is designed to show them the hopelessness of their future under Fascism, to persuade them to accept Socialist ideals. Differing from his previous books in its greater conciseness, it is also more pungently phrased, rises in a few passages to what...